Location: San Marcos, TX and Remote

City & Graphic Designer

Salary: $55,000 to $58,000

Description
Are you a planner and graphic designer looking for the opportunity to work on innovative projects with the top thought leaders in the planning and urban design field? Are you passionate about helping communities implement practices that put people, the environment, and community finances first? Does the opportunity to work in a small, entrepreneurial organization where all team members share responsibilities for outcomes excite you? If yes, then our team would love to visit with you about opportunities to join our growing organization.

We are seeking a passionate and organized urban thinker with graphic design expertise to assist in our planning efforts. Foundational knowledge of planning principles and curiosity in better practice will be helpful for our small but collaborative team. The success of our work is dependent on individuals understanding and buying into the concepts we bring forward, and you would help facilitate that. Assisting with illustrating urban concepts for our planning documents, developing advertisements for our workshops, and assisting with document design will be your primary role, in addition to assisting in planning production. An ability to communicate effectively over urban concepts and our work will be needed in our engagement events and help in writing content. Understanding and being able to communicate planning principles will still be helpful for the team and the quality of the product. A person who shares the same passion for making quality places through planning and design would be a great fit and critical to conveying sometimes complex elements correctly.

Key Results and Required Qualifications
1) Experience:

• • 3+ years of experience with the passion and skills necessary to execute best-in-class graphic design across a wide variety of mediums
• Proven experience in communications and content creation

2) Graphic Design:

• Comfortable working with Adobe Creative Suite applications, Figma, and other industry standard protocols and practices
• Additionally, expertise in illustration, editorial, and photo retouching will all be enthusiastically embraced
• Ability to design and draft advertising material for digital and print uses
• Proficiency in web design will be a plus

3) Understanding and Alignment of Urban Principals:

• Knowledge of urban principles in resilient city building from CNU, Strong Towns with understanding of Form Based Code, 15 Minute Cities, etc.
• Excitement in urban design, planning, and building places for people
• Experience in urban design, planning will be a plus

4) Brand Building:

• Ability to design brand language which is consistent throughout documents, advertising, and other material

5) Project Participation:

• Work collaboratively to develop concepts and design creative storytelling materials in both graphic and textual mediums
• Self starter personality to work autonomously for design or conceptualize content from conversations and ongoing projects
• Join in facilitating engagement meetings by being able to convey our principles and project specific details

How to Apply
Submit the application form and supplemental information to info@simplecity.design. 

Send over a cover letter, a resume, and/or a portfolio. Whatever you feel necessary to make us say, “we need to meet this person”, is what we want to see.